How To Use Cruel and unusual punishment In A Sentence
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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Now, it's probably a bad idea most of the time for guards to slug inmates - although I can think of lots of exceptions - but it isn't cruel and unusual punishment.
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In his complaint, Richards said denial of his request for erotic materials is cruel and unusual punishment.
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cruel and unusual punishment
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The execution was delayed while Kemmler's case was appealed on the grounds that it violated the Eighth Amendment restriction against cruel and unusual punishment.
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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This is particularly relevant given the current debate on whether specific methods of lethal injection constitute cruel and unusual punishment and therefore violate the Constitution.
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The execution was delayed while Kemmler's case was appealed on the grounds that it violated the Eighth Amendment restriction against cruel and unusual punishment.
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And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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Having to resort to a cruel and unusual punishment adds a moral relativity that is profoundly provocative.
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SCENE OF THE WEEKAnd so to Channel 5's festival of cruel and unusual punishment that is Celebrity Big Brother may contain strong language, flashing images, a shopping task, self-advertisement, underwear, scenes of worrying ignorance.
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The US Supreme Court recognised a prisoner's claim that being housed with a smoking cellmate constituted cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the 8th amendment to the US constitution.
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I would draw an analogy to the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments.
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Celebrity Beat: Lindsay Lohan takes to Twitter to comment on "cruel and unusual punishment"; also insists F-word manicure was only a joke; a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office says Lohan will serve jail time in a private cell ...
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It is a cruel and unusual punishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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She ruled that to impose such a sentence for what she called Leroy Smickle's "foolish act" would constitute "cruel and unusual punishment," and would breach the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment also includes a song by Haramia’s fiancée, a hip hop artist from the Netherlands called Jav’lin.
Aug. 30 execution date set for Haramia KiNassor / Kenneth Foster, Jr.
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And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.
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A penalty with such negligible returns to the state (is) patently excessive and cruel and unusual punishment violative of the Eighth Amendment," he wrote.
Justice Stevens to retire from Supreme Court
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His short-lived last television series, McCormick Rips, with a peroxide-blond Gary in gold lamé, counted as cruel and unusual punishment to rival anything Ellis can dream up.
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Similarly, it is possible to construct sorites series for the application of even more abstract legal standards such as the United States constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, or the right to due process -- evaluative tests with special legal meanings that can only be understood in the context of a whole legal system (and by reference to their elaboration and development in a common law system of precedent).
Law and Language
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In fall 2009, the Court will decide whether it is “cruel and unusual punishment” to sentence a juvenile offender to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for a crime less than murder.
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Whoever assigned eight A.M. for Molecular Biology 201 gave new meaning to the term cruel and unusual punishment.
The God Hater
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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It is the only explanation for the cruel and unusual punishment now visited on me.
The Sun
